Minnesota · Private foundation
The Malark Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $56k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 17
- Grants FY2025
- 9
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 67%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 5 to 24
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.5M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 67% of the organizations The Malark Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 65% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 35% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 16 | $51k | 69% |
| FY2024 | 9 | $27k | 67% |
| FY2023 | 8 | $41k | 88% |
| FY2022 | 9 | $15k | 100% |
| FY2021 | 24 | $47k | 88% |
| FY2020 | 5 | $17k | 80% |
| FY2019 | 9 | $13k | 89% |
| FY2018 | 5 | $11k | 60% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lord of Life Lutheran Church | $15,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Magnus Veterans Foundation | $15,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Second Harvest Heartland | $15,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Second Harvest Foodbank of Southern Wi | $12,700 | 2 | 0% |
| Steps of Strategy | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Ride Hard Breathe Easy | $10,000 | 1 | 6% |
| Minnesota Teen Challenge Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Compassion Connection | $6,500 | 3 | n/a |
| The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals | $6,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Animal Humane Society | $5,500 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 48 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 28 recipients with no EIN on record ($85k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Malark Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Minneapolis Foundation · The Graco Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Connexus Energy Foundation · Dotopia · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · United Way Worldwide · Chubb Charitable Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About The Malark Foundation
- How much does The Malark Foundation give?
- The Malark Foundation reported 17 grants totaling $56,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 24 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Malark Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (51%), Food & Nutrition (11%), Human Services (9%).
- Who are The Malark Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Lord of Life Lutheran Church ($16k), Magnus Veterans Foundation ($15k), Second Harvest Heartland ($15k).
- Does The Malark Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 67% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Malark Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Malark Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Minneapolis Foundation, The Graco Foundation, Otto Bremer Trust.
- Where is The Malark Foundation based?
- The Malark Foundation is based in MN.
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